Hans Conzelmann quotes

“The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them.”
-- Hans Conzelmann

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“The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you”
-- Hans Conzelmann

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“The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public.”
-- Hans Conzelmann

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“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”

“I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.”

“When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.”

“But for this book we could not know right from wrong.”

“Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.”

Source : "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

“The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.”

“This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.”

“Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.”

“Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.”

Source : "Watch the Right: The Amazing Rise of Beverly LaHaye" by Connie Page (Ms. magazine), February 1987.

“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”